American River Trail: Biking in Sacramento

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Жыл бұрын

We just completed a large portion of the American River Trail and explored downtown Sacramento with our new friends Kevin and Jana.
Just a week before this ride, we didn’t know much about this trail and can honestly say if it wasn’t for them reaching out, we would not have completed it.
We cannot thank them enough for inviting us to join them on this amazing adventure, starting a new friendship, and surprising us with gluten free treats!
Even my dad was able to join!
Check out our latest ride on the American River Trail.
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@jimhernandez7712 3 ай бұрын

love that bike path all the way up to Folsom lake. just a jaunt from there up to Auburn. Beautiful the whole way.😍

@TylerandKari 3 ай бұрын

It was such a beautiful path. We want to go back and get all the way up to Folsom lake. Love traveling along the river.

@karitorres8607 Жыл бұрын

Loved meeting Kevin and Jana! Thanks to them for planning such a great ride. We got to explore and learn so much about the town of Sacramento!

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

They were so great! Can’t wait for another ride.

@Maydeus Жыл бұрын

Wow. What an awesome video. Thank you so much for sharing. I used to live in California and I miss it so much. This video brought back a lot of memories. Take care!

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Happy you enjoyed it and could look back with good memories.

@MeG-nu4fm Жыл бұрын

I haven’t seen Sacramento as much I have here in this video. I’ve been ther but just to capital area. And I don’t live too far as I’m from SF Bay Area.

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

It has its beautiful parts. We enjoyed exploring by bike to see more of it.

@Tackybrady68 Ай бұрын

You climbed all the way up to Fair Oaks Village and didn't stop at the Sunflower Drive In? Wonderful vegetarian cafe that has been there for 30+ years. Terrific nut burgers and smoothies

@TylerandKari Ай бұрын

I don’t think we knew about it! Guess we have to go back. Thanks for the recommendation. We want to go back and ride all the way to Folsom.

@reedjacksonmaccom Ай бұрын

wow. long ride. good job. I ride that about 2 times a week. Thx for the fun video.

@TylerandKari Ай бұрын

It’s a great trail, we’d love to be able to go back and do it again and go further. Our goal is to make it to Folsom. Thanks for watching and the comment, glad you enjoyed the video!

@marydavis426 11 ай бұрын

My husband and I live here in Sacramento and I ride in front of the sac zoo every day on my bike commute to work. I never knew I could see the giraffes!! We rode that way today over to the river trail. Thanks so much for sharing your epic adventures.

@TylerandKari 11 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! So have you stopped to see them now? Kevin (the guy who showed us the trail) really had a good adventure set up for us. Appreciate you sharing the comment. 👍 hope you enjoy!

@marydavis426 11 ай бұрын

We went yesterday and saw three giraffes. So fun. We rode the American river trail frequently but live this new route to get there from south sac. Thanks for having an awesome channel.

@TylerandKari 11 ай бұрын

That’s great, glad they were out to see! And thank you very much. We appreciate it.

@APhotographerTravels2025JohnMc 7 ай бұрын

The America River parks way starts at Mouth of the American River as it merges into The Sacramento River make your way to old Sacramento park in any of the four parking lots or the Amtrack terminal parking lot, then find the Sacramento Railroad Museum ride past to the river there a entrance to the trail along the Sacramento River about 1 mile cross the American River go under the bridge for the First mile of the trail. If you google earth shows the full trail Sacramento to Folsom round trip about 78 miles this trail was built 60 years ago. One of the nicest in the country. Enjoy.

@TylerandKari 7 ай бұрын

We agree. Such a nice trail. Very happy we were able to ride and take in its beauty.

@tello_yo7546 Жыл бұрын

great video. i ride that trail very often. usually i ride from hazel avenue to Folsom lake most of the time... but great video....

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

Thank you, very much appreciated. We need to go back and check out the Folsom lake section next time.

@ucdengboss 7 ай бұрын

That stretch is nice to ride on. We would ride From Sac State to Natoma and back quite a bit. Here is some footage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p6mBmNWTqtCWiac.htmlsi=R0H1mvTaXYAji1Pv

@AWBabbage Жыл бұрын

This trail is my main training ride for RAGBRAI. I’ve ridden the full 64 miles several times in the past few weeks. I will be a newbie this year. See you in the Pork Belly camp! Are you going to be in Northern California for a while?

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

That’s such a great spot to train for Ragbrai. A good place to log long miles. Congrats on making it to Ragbrai this year! Look forward to meeting in pork belly camp. We unfortunately probably won’t be in Northern California until after Ragbrai. Have a few trips planned pre Ragbrai.

@AWBabbage Жыл бұрын

I think you would like riding the Bizz Johnson Trail out of Susanville California. It is a 25 mile gravel rail to trail conversion with trestles and tunnels. If you start in Susanville, it is all downhill after you turn around and the ride along the river is very scenic. No steep grades!

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

@@AWBabbage Oh awesome. We will add that one to our list of future rides. Sounds like something we would enjoy. thank you.

@frankcauthorn1472 Жыл бұрын

I love riding that trail! Interesting where you started and cool that I did't see any homeless. That's why I usually start in old town Folsom and ride up to the lake (a lot of gravel/dirt across the dam) take the Johnny Cash trail back. I didn't see the Nimbus fish hatchery, which is a must see in November when the salmon are running. So you'll have to go back. I'll be looking for you at RAGBRAI! I'm on Team Inferno are you guys rolling with Pork Bellies? what are Kevin and Jana's plans.

@TylerandKari Жыл бұрын

It was a new one for us and we loved it. Great trail and good way to put on some miles without cars. We look forward to eventually exploring more up that way towards Folsom. We completely forgot to explore the fish hatchery. That would be a beautiful sight with the salmon. Gives us a reason to return. Look forward to meeting at Ragbrai! We will keep an eye out for team inferno. Yup, we are with pork belly again. From what I understand, Jana won’t be there, but Kevin will! Definitely keep an eye out for him as well.

@karitorres8607 Жыл бұрын

I’d love to go further and check out the Johnny Cash trail. Or start at that end next time!

@frankcauthorn1472 Жыл бұрын

@@karitorres8607 Its a full day ride even starting in Folsum. Ride to the lake and across the dam. Super fun dirt/gravel, don't miss the turn for the JC trail back to Folsum old town lots of cool stuff Must see Nimbus fish hatchery in November when the Salmon are running, old PG&E hydro power plant, lunch at the 2nd floor Mexican restaurant, Mike's bike shopping....I haven't ridden the lower part in a long time there were many homeless people down by the city I hope that has changed.

@karitorres8607 Жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome, we will definitely have to go back and check all that out! Thanks for sharing!

@stephenewey9714 8 ай бұрын

Do you have a link to map or something if we wanted to follow the same route?

@TylerandKari 8 ай бұрын

I’m new to using Strava, however I did just try to add the Strava route on the KZfaq video description. It should be within the text titled STRAVA. Also, if you know of anyway that works better for future sharing please let me know. 👍

@ucdengboss 7 ай бұрын

Some of my old footage from the ARBT as well. Highly recommend riding between East Sacramento and Folsom depending on your fitness level and desired distance. Closer to downtown is sketchy. Here is my older group ride footage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p6mBmNWTqtCWiac.htmlsi=R0H1mvTaXYAji1Pv

@raygarcia-pg7wr Ай бұрын

Yalll dnt do the del paso height’s section 😂

@TylerandKari Ай бұрын

🤷‍♂️ I don’t know the area well.

@jkbc 2 ай бұрын

that's a long ride especially if you have to do it round trip ..

@TylerandKari 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, we were surprised how far that ride went. Hopefully able to go the whole route one day.

@armadilllo 5 ай бұрын

They ruined it when they paved it, we used to ride our mini bikes from downtown to Lake Natoma. We used to camp along there when we were kids and now the put up a bunch of parking lots, can't even go to the river without paying to walk dow to the water.

@TylerandKari 5 ай бұрын

Was it all just gravel or dirt before? Sounds nice being able to camp before.

@armadilllo 5 ай бұрын

@ippingpt Just dirt and river rock when you got towards Rancho Cordova. They had motorcycles hill climbs up by hazel on those bluffs and jet boat drag races on Lake Natoma. We used to take our .22s and did target practice at the river too. My dad wanted to buy all the land at Sunrise and Hwy 50 and my mom wouldn't let him, she said "Why would we buy a bunch of rocks in the middle of nowhere? We're not using our savings for that!"🤣🤣

@TylerandKari 5 ай бұрын

@@armadilllowow it has changed a lot in that area sounds like. lol and always tough to know which real estate is going to take off. That’s definitely a bummer.